To fill the cabinet position of Secretary of Social Change for President Richard Nixon. As liaison between the Office of the President and the multitude of social groups demanding governmental reform, I will guide the President and advise the course of action necessary to bring meaningful change to a broken system. I will be sure to coordinate all rallies and media coverage of all major issues with or without the use of psychic energy and/or bananas. Be advised, “Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information”(Jezer). But as it is Richard “Dick” Nixon- he already knows this. BTW: All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.. "God Bless America — Shoot Nixon", (Hoffman, Spoken Word).
Functional summary
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists (Martin qtg. Hoffman).
For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic "Just Say No!' campaign (the equivalent of telling manic depressives to "just cheer up") have returned drug education and treatment to the Reefer Madness era. (Hoffman, Reefer).
In the nineteen-sixties, apartheid was driven out of America. Legal segregation — Jim Crow — ended. We didn't end racism, but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you can send a million soldiers ten thousand miles away to fight in a war that people do not support. We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens. Now, it doesn't matter who sits in the Oval Office. But the big battles that were won in that period of civil war and strife you cannot reverse. We were young, we were reckless, arrogant, silly, headstrong ... and we were right! I regret nothing! (Stephens, qtg. Hoffman).
Education
Expelled from Public School Classical High School but graduated from Worcester Academy in 1955; Worchester, Massachusetts.
B.A in American Studies in 1959. Brandeis University where he studied under Herbert Marcuse, a leading Marxist Critical Theorist associated with the Frankfurt School
Master’s Degree in Psycholgy from UC Berkley.
ON EDUCATION: Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. (Hoffman Steal).
References
The Chicago Seven (Formerly known as the Chicago Eight), which included fellow Yippies Jerry Rubin and Juice Box, Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale and several other radical activists, including future California state senator Tom Hayden. (Hayden not friends in later years.) http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/19/us/abbie-hoffman-committed-suicide-using-barbiturates-autopsy-shows.html?sec=health
Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Seale and Timothy Leary (Spoke at Vanderbilt University April 4, 1989)
His environmental work was cited by some of the 400 luminaries—including William F. Buckley Jr., Norman Mailer, Burt Lancaster and Gene Kelly—who wrote the authorities on his behalf when Hoffman surfaced in 1980 to face the cocaine charges. (Kunen).
A week after his death, a thousand friends and relatives gathered for a memorial in his hometown (Wayne).
Former President Jimmy Carter’s daughter Amy Carter, arrested with Abbie in November of 1986 in protest of CIA’s recruitment on the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Summary of qualifications
Coordinated various counter-cultural rallies: Democratic National Convention in 1968 (Yippies sang and danced and smoked pot promoting a candidate for the presidency PIGASUS.
Involved in 1967 organization and participated in the efforts of over 100,000 youth to join hands around the Pentagon in an effort to levitate the building using mental force.
Participated in many Festivals of Life where Yippie (Youth International Party) members would join in free love and political expression: Favored activities: Guerrilla theater, poetry readings, rock music, and general counter-cultural shenanigans.
Member of Chicago Seven including YIPPIES Jerry Rubin, Juice Box, Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale and Tom Hayden. (Linder).
New York Stock Exchange rally where money was thrown into the stock exchange to protest the Vietnam War and capitalism in general. August 24, 1967.
Journalist: contributing to many publications
Volunteer experience
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and organized "Liberty House", which sold items to support the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States.
Dissemination of important information such as news that the newest high was bananas inserted rectally. His hope was that Pentagon scientists would try this.
After plastic surgery and self-imposed exile, used name Barry Freed and openly worked to save the environment to preserve Saint Lawrence Seaway.
First arrest: June 3, 1954, (17 years old) being charged with driving without a license.
Arrested for wearing a shirt that looked like the American flag- arrested for desecration of a flag. Commented afterwards, “I regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.”
Arrested for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. August 28, 1973 on drug charges for intent to sell & distribute a large amount of cocaine. He subsequently skipped bail and ran from authorities for several years claiming he was framed by undercover police.
November 1986, arrested along with Amy Carter for criminal trespass on Amherst’s University of Massachusettes campus in protest of CIA recruitment of students on campus.
NOVEMBER 30, 1936 - April 12, 1989
Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman
BTW: All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.. "God Bless America — Shoot Nixon", (Hoffman, Spoken Word).
For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic "Just Say No!' campaign (the equivalent of telling manic depressives to "just cheer up") have returned drug education and treatment to the Reefer Madness era. (Hoffman, Reefer).
In the nineteen-sixties, apartheid was driven out of America. Legal segregation — Jim Crow — ended. We didn't end racism, but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you can send a million soldiers ten thousand miles away to fight in a war that people do not support. We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens. Now, it doesn't matter who sits in the Oval Office. But the big battles that were won in that period of civil war and strife you cannot reverse. We were young, we were reckless, arrogant, silly, headstrong ... and we were right! I regret nothing! (Stephens, qtg. Hoffman).
B.A in American Studies in 1959. Brandeis University where he studied under Herbert Marcuse, a leading Marxist Critical Theorist associated with the Frankfurt School
Master’s Degree in Psycholgy from UC Berkley.
ON EDUCATION: Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. (Hoffman Steal).
(Hayden not friends in later years.) http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/19/us/abbie-hoffman-committed-suicide-using-barbiturates-autopsy-shows.html?sec=health
Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Seale and Timothy Leary (Spoke at Vanderbilt University April 4, 1989)
His environmental work was cited by some of the 400 luminaries—including William F. Buckley Jr., Norman Mailer, Burt Lancaster and Gene Kelly—who wrote the authorities on his behalf when Hoffman surfaced in 1980 to face the cocaine charges. (Kunen).
A week after his death, a thousand friends and relatives gathered for a memorial in his hometown (Wayne).
Former President Jimmy Carter’s daughter Amy Carter, arrested with Abbie in November of 1986 in protest of CIA’s recruitment on the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Coordinated various counter-cultural rallies: Democratic National Convention in 1968 (Yippies sang and danced and smoked pot promoting a candidate for the presidency PIGASUS.
Involved in 1967 organization and participated in the efforts of over 100,000 youth to join hands around the Pentagon in an effort to levitate the building using mental force.
Participated in many Festivals of Life where Yippie (Youth International Party) members would join in free love and political expression: Favored activities: Guerrilla theater, poetry readings, rock music, and general counter-cultural shenanigans.
Member of Chicago Seven including YIPPIES Jerry Rubin, Juice Box, Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale and Tom Hayden. (Linder).
New York Stock Exchange rally where money was thrown into the stock exchange to protest the Vietnam War and capitalism in general. August 24, 1967.
Journalist: contributing to many publications
Dissemination of important information such as news that the newest high was bananas inserted rectally. His hope was that Pentagon scientists would try this.
After plastic surgery and self-imposed exile, used name Barry Freed and openly worked to save the environment to preserve Saint Lawrence Seaway.
First arrest: June 3, 1954, (17 years old) being charged with driving without a license.
Arrested for wearing a shirt that looked like the American flag- arrested for desecration of a flag. Commented afterwards, “I regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.”
Arrested for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
August 28, 1973 on drug charges for intent to sell & distribute a large amount of cocaine. He subsequently skipped bail and ran from authorities for several years claiming he was framed by undercover police.
November 1986, arrested along with Amy Carter for criminal trespass on Amherst’s University of Massachusettes campus in protest of CIA recruitment of students on campus.
Hoffman, Abbie. Wake Up America! Big Toe Records. (1970). ASIN: B001OVXYDY.
Hoffman, Abbie. "Reefer Madness" in //The Nation// (21 November 1987). (26 Dec 2009) <http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/Nation_Hoffman_112187.html>.
Jezer, Marty (1993). Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. pp. 20–23. ISBN 0-8135-2017-7.
Kunen, James S. Troubled Rebel Chooses A Silent Death (Obituary/Cover Photo). People Magazine May 1 1989 Vol 31: No. 17 (15 Dec. 2009) < http://www.people.com/people/archive/issue/0,,7566890501,00.html>.
King, Wayne. “Abbie Hoffman Committed Suicide Using Barbituates, Autopsy Shows) New York Times Obituary April 19, 1989 < http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/19/us/abbie-hoffman-committed-suicide-using-barbiturates-autopsy-shows.html?sec=health>.
Linder, Douglas O. The Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial. 20 Dec 2009) < http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/Account.html>.
Martin, William P. The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right. Sourcebooks, Inc., (2004) p.51 ISBN1402203098. Also quoted in Tikkun (July-August 1989).
McQuiston, John T. “Abbie Hoffman, 60’s Icon, Dies; Yippie Movement Fgounder Was 52”. 17 Dec. 2009) <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DF1030F937A25757C0A96F948260&scp=4&sq=abbie%20hoffman%20died&st=cse>.
Stephens, Julie. Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Post Modernism. Preface. Cambridge University Press. 1998. ISBN0521629764, 9780521629768.
Closing words from his last speech, Vanderbilt University (April 1989).